Remember those glow-in-the-dark roads that began cropping up a few years ago? One in Singapore just opened to the public, and it aims to make the length of space safer for people to use at night. Whereas ordinary road lights are expensive and result in light pollution, glow-in-the-dark materials are energized by the sun during the day and then glow … Continue reading
If you spent the previous weekend playing through the Destiny 2 beta on PS4 or Xbox One, you may have encountered a particularly tough section of the beta’s “Homecoming” mission. Many players got stuck trying to complete the part of the mission that tasks them with destroying a set of power turbines. It was a difficult segment, with a number … Continue reading
Google is testing the scourge of Facebook and Twitter, autoplaying videos, in its searches. The SEM Post noticed some result pages started included them, specifically when searching for upcoming films. Trailers for the respective movies appeared in t…
Google introduced the by-now familiar Instant Search back in 2010. The idea was to make searching faster by updating the results of your search in real time while you typed. Now the company is dropping the feature, according to SearchEngineLand, to b…
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At its Build conference, Microsoft said that it wanted to make PCs and phones work better together. It wanted to make it easier for users to link their phones to their PCs so that they could take advantage of cross-device web browsing even if they use an Android or iOS smartphone. The latest Windows 10 preview that Microsoft has released today enables users to link Android phone to PC.
Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16251 is available to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring today. This cross-device feature will let users share links from their Android smartphone to a Windows 10 PC.
The feature can be enabled from Settings > Phone in the latest Windows 10 preview build. Users will have to download an app called Microsoft Apps on their Android smartphone to complete the link between the handset and the PC.
Users will also be able to continue their web browsing sessions on a PC. They just have to open up the native share window on their phone and tap on the “Continue on PC” option. The option will first ask them to sign into their Microsoft account. It won’t work if users don’t use the same Microsoft Account that they are signed in with on the PC.
Tapping on the option will immediately open the website on the linked PC. This is the first such scenario that Microsoft is testing out for linked smartphones. The company will eventually allow users to share content to and from linked PCs and even allow users to copy and paste content between devices via a universal clipboard.
Only Android users can test this functionality out right now. Microsoft says that support for iPhone is coming very soon.
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The Nintendo Switch has turned out to be a hit for the company. Nintendo today announced its official sales figures for the Nintendo Switch in its Q1 earnings. The company announced that it sold only 2 million units of the Nintendo Switch. I say only because it could have sold a lot more if it was able to make them fast enough.
Supply shortages have plagued the Nintendo Switch ever since it was released in March this year. Even though it has been months since the console was released, you still can’t just walk into a store and walk out with a Switch. It’s virtually sold out at all major retailers and whenever new stock does arrive, it sells out very quickly.
This goes to show that Nintendo could have sold more than the 2 million Switch units that it already did in the first quarter had it been able to make the units fast enough. Despite that, Nintendo will be happy that it’s not seeing a repeat of the Wii U which only sold 13.5 million units during its entire lifespan.
There’s ample demand for the company’s new console but Nintendo doesn’t seem to be changing its production and stocking process. Nintendo is still predicting sales for the year to come in at 13 million units which is the same projection that the company has had since last year.
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It has long been reported that Facebook is working on original TV content. The company is reportedly going to kick things off with “spotlight shows” that will be inexpensive and up to ten minutes in length. The shows will be owned by the media companies that have teamed up with the company for Facebook TV. According to a new report, the first of these spotlight shows will debut in as early as two weeks.
Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that Facebook has been asking its partners to submit the first episodes of their spotlight shows. Some of its partners are said to have done that already.
Some of the companies that have teamed up with Facebook on this project include BuzzFeed, Vox Media, and Group Nine Media. Facebook will eventually launch original shows of up to 30 minutes that will be solely funded and owned by itself.
Facebook TV was initially expected to be ready by June but delays have forced it to push the launch forward. Further delays are still predicted but there’s reason to believe that the first episodes of these spotlight shows will be launched in a fortnight.
Facebook’s own TV shows will be displayed outside users’ News Feed in a new video section. The shows are said to include scripted and user-generated content, but Facebook doesn’t appear to be taking on Netflix or HBO with its shows, at least not at this point in time.
The company declined to comment on the report so it’s not saying anything as yet about Facebook TV.
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You know when you start typing a query in Google and it instantly offers suggestions and loads the results page in real time? That feature is going away soon, the company has confirmed Google’s Instant Search feature was launched back in 2010. Google said back then that the feature enabled it to save millions of seconds every hour by surfacing relevant results as soon as the user started typing. However, it doesn’t make much sense for the company to keep this feature around now.
The Instant Search feature did prove to be useful as long as you were typing in a query on a PC. It didn’t make much sense on mobile devices since users are relying on their fingers and virtual buttons for input. Moreover, displaying search suggestions over a virtual keyboard that takes up half of the screen doesn’t really look that good.
So why is Google ditching Instant Search now? Well, back in 2010, the bulk of Google’s search traffic was generated via desktops. There has been a fundamental shift in that over the past few years. More than half of Google’s entire search traffic now comes from mobile devices. So it makes sense that Google is now favoring a better user experience for mobile users over Instant Search.
In a statement provided to Search Engine Land, a spokesperson for Google said:
“We launched Google Instant back in 2010 with the goal to provide users with the information they need as quickly as possible, even as they typed their searches on desktop devices. Since then, many more of our searches happen on mobile, with very different input and interaction and screen constraints. With this in mind, we have decided to remove Google Instant, so we can focus on ways to make Search even faster and more fluid on all devices.”
Search results powered by auto-complete aren’t going away, though. They will be displayed in the standard drop-down menu but Google Search will no longer render the results page in real time.
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